Saturday, 8 October 2011

How many Moon landings were there?

Posed to me by a colleague. I was pretty close, off the top of my head, but I'll drop a little fact package here:

Number of Moon landings: 6 (Apollos 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, and 17)
Number of humans that walked on the Moon: 12
They were:

Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Pete Conrad, Alan Bean, Alan Shepard, Edgar Mitchell, David Scott, James Irwin, John W. Young, Charles Duke, Eugene Cernan, and Harrison Schmitt.

Number of people who went to the Moon twice: 3

No one landed on the Moon more than once, but Jim Lovell did go to the Moon twice without ever having walked on it - which must really suck.
Only the Yanks have been to the Moon. (officially)

All this stuff presupposes that no previous civilisations reached the Moon or alien races which became humans or anything like that....I'm just commenting on the generally accepted modern recorded truth.

I think the Russians should go to the Moon and put a parking ticket on the lunar rover(s). Just to show us they have a sense of humour.
If you don't think that's amusing then you're Russian.

And, conspirisists, we did go to the Moon, deal with it.

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